Episodes

  • Longing to Be: cultivating kin in a fractured world — with carla joy and Jamie-Leigh
    Jan 29 2024

    Two moss loving friends talk about being moms who make art with community as a way to cultivate connections in a world that aims to divide us. carla and Jamie-Leigh also dive into feeling-thinking together about what each discovered in themselves while making On Belonging— ending with an invitation to you, the listener, to reflect on what it means to belong.

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • The Earth is a Closed Circuit — with Patrick Pouponneau
    Jan 29 2024

    Patrick Pouponneau joins Jamie-Leigh in conversation to explore ideas around place-based belonging within diasporic identity, carrying our ancestors with us as a tool for healing, and how being Black in really White places can hinder the process. A conversation which ultimately inspired Patrick to write a powerful poem to further explore his own connection to belonging, which is also featured in this audio story.

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    54 mins
  • Psychopomp — with rowan ewanyshyn
    Jan 29 2024

    In this story, rowan ewanyshyn reads a timeline bending narration that blurs the lines of life and death to bring us closer to ancestors known and unknown. Painting vivid scenes of memories, visions, and dreams, we explore rowan’s own turbulent path towards healing ancestral pain woven with threads of softening masculinity, embracing grief, and ultimately finding belonging amidst the uncertain.

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    36 mins
  • Weirding Belonging: dispatches from the periphery — Elia J. Ayoub
    Jan 29 2024

    Elia, who grew up in Lebanon, takes us on a profound journey across lands, cultures, and into liminality— both the in-between and the periphery— where he feels belonging has the potential to be more generative. Through the lens of radical histories and cultural studies, Elia discusses a myriad of topics and ideas, such as: languages, autism, social constructs, whiteness, diaspora connections, some current passions, and more. Throughout this impassioned narration, Elia encourages us to be with the many unknowns as we embrace the impermanence of everything— including the dominant and violent structures we are up against— creating better futures together.

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Webs of Connectivity — with Sophie Macklin
    Dec 20 2023

    Webs of Connectivity begins with a poetic narration by Sophie and then flows into a deep conversation with carla. Sophie speaks to the importance of making and unmaking worlds within a practice of presence, and shares some potential pathways towards opening ourselves up to surprises within every moment or interaction so we can deepen our innate belonging. She also points to the very real horrors that lurk within the realities of Empire and our complicated identities, in particular whiteness. Woven throughout, Sophie offers vital reflections and a sense of comfort as many of us set out to (re)discover our often fractured connections across all time — including with our ancestors, our more than human kin, and throughout landscapes.

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    51 mins
  • Ancestors of Place — with Dani Burlison
    Dec 20 2023

    Ancestors of Place is Dani’s beautiful and ghostly pilgrimage across lands and water, weaving together an intricate tapestry of what it means to explore ancestry and belonging amidst fractured histories, colonialisms, patriarchy, and capitalism — while searching for a deeper sense of home.

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    32 mins
  • The Realm of Possibilities — with April Lin
    Dec 20 2023

    April joins carla and Jamie-Leigh in a joyful conversation about broadening our perspectives of what ancestry can be, and who and what it includes. They discuss the potential of technology to facilitate connections, as well as a need for grounding amongst/within the more-than-human kin around us. Exploring these expansions of radical ancestry as a way to create more harmonious and just futures.

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    54 mins
  • Portals — with Coulee Ross
    Dec 20 2023

    This story opens with a dreamy narration by Coulee Ross that moves into a conversation between Coulee and Jamie-Leigh. Through auditory exploration, Coulee lands us in a world where all beings inherently belong. In the follow up conversation, they look at how ongoing colonialism challenges the narrative of belonging and how reciprocity and kinship are salves we can use across time and space.

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    39 mins